TED NASH

Born in Los Angeles, Ted Nash's interest
in music started at an early age. Exposed to music and encouraged
by his father, trombonist Dick Nash, and uncle, reedman Ted Nash
(both well-known studio and jazz musicians), young Nash started
playing the piano at age seven. At age twelve he began playing
the clarinet and a year later picked up the alto sax. While in
high school, he studied jazz improvisation with the innovative
teacher and vibraphonist Charlie Shoemake. Mr. Nash's first gig
came at age sixteen, playing a week in Hawaii with legendary vibraphonist
and band leader, Lionel Hampton. That same year he won an audition
to play lead alto with the Quincy Jones band. By age seventeen
Nash had toured Europe, appeared on three records, and was performing
regularly with Don Ellis, Louie Bellson, and Toshiko Akiyoshi,
as well as with his own quintet. Ted Nash has been
composing music since the age of fifteen. His first composition,
Tristemente, was recorded by Louie Bellson on a record, Raincheck,
on which Nash played with the late trumpeter Blue Mitchell. At
age eighteen, Nash moved to New York City and soon recorded his
first album as a leader, "Conception," on the Concord
Jazz label. During his first three years in New York became a
regular member of the Gerry Mulligan Big Band, the National Jazz
Ensemble, and the Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra, the latter an association
that would last for more than ten years. In 1994, Nash
was commissioned by the Davos Musik Festival in Switzerland to
compose works featuring a string quartet in a jazz setting, the
seed which let to the formation of his group, Double Quartet,
and the recording of his CD "Rhyme and Reason" (Arabesque),
voted one of the best releases of 1999 by Jazz Times Magazine. Ted's
most recent release (March 2005), "La Espada de la Noche"
(Palmetto Records), has reached the #1 position on the CMJ radio
chart. Of a recent performance, the Los Angeles Times wrote:
You say jazz is having trouble these days finding a creative
focus? Dont believe it. Go to the Jazz Bakery tonight to
hear saxophonist Ted Nashs marvelous group Odeon, and any
doubts will quickly be dispelled. What this Los Angeles native
is demonstrating with Odeon is the fact that -- far from being
on a down slope -- jazz is in a period of extraordinary opportunity.
To quote the Village Voice: "Every record collection
should include at least one version of 'Tico, Tico,' and have
I got a goodie for you -- ripping, dramatic, and only slightly
ironic, which also describes everything else on saxophonist Ted
Nashs new tango album." The San Diego Union
says: Like few others in contemporary music, Ted Nash thrives
on combining disparate styles into an enticing whole that is never
quite what it seems. Just how well he does it is demonstrated
on his forth album, the splendid "La Espada de la Noche." Odeons
previous release, "Sidewalk Meeting" (Arabesque), landed
on several "top ten" lists for 2001, including the New
York Times, Village Voice, Boston Globe, and the New York Newsday,
as well as the 2002 Downbeat Critics Poll for best jazz CD. Gary
Giddins, in an article in the Village Voice (May 2002),
singled out the first track from this CD, an adaptation of Debussy's
"Premiere Rhapsodie," as his favorite from all the jazz
CDs recorded that year. Mr. Nash is a Composer-in-residence of
the Jazz Composers Collective, a musician-run, non-profit organization
dedicated to presenting the original works of composers who are
pushing the boundaries of their self-expression. Cited as "Rising
Star" in the tenor sax category of the 2003 Downbeat
Critics Poll, Nash can be heard on several acclaimed CDs produced
by the Jazz Composers Collective: the Herbie Nichols Project --
"Love is Proximity" and "Dr. Cyclops' Dream"
(Soulnote), and "Strange City" (Palmetto); with Ben
Allison "Medicine Wheel", "Third Eye",
and "Riding the Nuclear Tiger" (Palmetto); as well as
recordings with Wynton Marsalis, including "Big Train"
(Columbia), "Sweet Release and Ghost Story" (Sony Classical),
"All Rise" (Sony Classical), and (with the Lincoln Center
Jazz Orchestra) "A Love Supreme" (Palmetto). Recent
engagements include concerts and club appearances with his two
groups Odeon, and Still Evolved, including the Village Vanguard
and Dizzys Club Coca-Cola in New York City; tours of Europe
and Asia with the LCJO; collaborations with the Augusta Ballet
(Georgia) and Zenon Dance Company (Minneapolis); and concerts
with the Jazz Composers Collective, including tours of Brazil.

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